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DPS issues more student violations By Michael Boren Staff Writer
top: alyssa stone | contributing photographer; bottom and right: jenna passmore | staff photographer Syracuse University students freeze on the Quad as part of a flash mob Wednesday afternoon to promote the fashion event “Lights, Camera, Fashion!” Participants held their poses for 10 minutes and were all dressed in black with bold blue or green accessories.
Flash mob on Quad promotes fashion events By Jada Wong Staff Writer
A flash mob of male and female models stood motionless on the Quad at 12:35 p.m. for 10 minutes Wednesday to promote “Lights, Camera, Fashion,” an event that kicks off Fashion Month at Syracuse University. “Everyone is dressed so classily and is so stylish,” said Shannon Phillips, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences who came out to see what the flash mob was about. “The bright colors really cheer people up on this nice gray spring day at Syracuse. It’s nice to see fashion and different styles when Syracuse seems to sport 12 shades of gray from December all the way until May.” Models dressed in black outfits accented with a blue or green accessory lined the Quad sidewalk from Huntington Beard Crouse Hall to Carnegie Hall. They stood frozen in poses from 12:35 until 12:45 p.m., a
time frame when students change classes. Students who walked through the Quad heckled and danced in front of the models, but the models maintained their poses. Hilary Smith, a senior advertising major, created and organized the flash mob to draw attention to “Lights, Camera, Fashion!” Smith, who also modeled in the lineup, said she released her “inner Gaga” with a black tulle skirt, leotard, over-theknee boots, leather jacket, racing gloves and a blue circle scarf. “Lights, Camera, Fashion!” will be held April 6 in the Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III from 5 to 7 p.m. It will have stations set up to promote events during Fashion Month in April such as Zipped magazine’s launch party, the annual Senior Fashion Show and the Newhouse Fashion Show. There will also be makeup demonstrations and jewelry-making stations. Members
of the campus advertising agency The NewHouse helped promote the event by passing out flyers during the flash mob. Smith raised awareness and curiosity about the flash mob by creating a Facebook event page with very little information about what would take place. “We created a Facebook event and I had all my models and team members post invites on their Facebook statuses,” Smith said. The invitations for the flash mob read, ‘We’re taking over the Quad Wednesday, March 31st @ 12:35pm. You’ll want to bring a camera.’ Nicole Roberts, a sophomore advertising major and a member of The NewHouse, said many of her friends asked what the event was about but she told them to come to the Quad and find out for themselves. Kaity Wong, a sophomore advertising major and model for the flash
mob, said the Facebook event page had more than 300 confirmed guests, so she expected a large attendance. But the turnout was larger than expected — 300 fliers were printed but ran out halfway through the flash mob. Campus publications such as Zipped, The Stitch Society and CuseMyCampus.com helped publicize the event on their blogs. Even though some students said they thought the flash mob was fun and interesting, Ethan Bruno, a senior in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, said he didn’t understand its point. “I think it’s the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” Bruno said. “I don’t know what it is or what statements it’s trying to make.” To illuminate more of the reasoning behind the flash mob and to further advertise “Lights, Camera,
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Michael Flusche holds a party every year during Labor Day weekend to meet the students living near him. They hang out for a few hours and sometimes befriend Flusche for years to come. But when the day turns into night, the former Syracuse University professor regularly has to ask his neighbors to turn their music down. “Sometimes they just do not understand how loud they are,” he said. SU’s Department of Public Safety has referred 124 students for noise and open container violations during the 2009-10 academic year, and DPS expects that number to continue rising. The number is part of a four-year spike in off-campus DPS referrals as permanent residents and students have tried to coexist in the East neighborhood, which roughly covers the area between Clarendon Street
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Study shows clouds affect college choice
Campus community says not true at SU By Lorne Fultonberg Staff Writer
Students who visit a college on a cloudy day are 9 percent more likely to enroll at that school, according to a study from the University of California, San Diego. Uri Simonsohn, an assistant professor of management and strategy, analyzed the enrollment decisions of 1,284 prospective students who visited an unspecified private northeastern university known for its academic strength. He reasoned that since most people
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Poet to talk on LGBT media issues By Kathleen Ronayne Asst. News Editor
Activist, writer and poet Emanuel Xavier will speak about his interactions with the media as an openly gay Latino Thursday to Syracuse University students. Xavier will speak on his personal experiences, recite some of his or i g i n a l poetry What: Emanuel Xavier and host Where: Joyce a Q-and-A Hergenhan Auditorium period at When: Tonight, 7 p.m. 7 p.m. in How much: Free the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III. The event is co-hosted by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the LGBT Resource Center. The goal of the event is to raise awareness about the portrayal of members of the LGBT community in both Spanish and English media, said Ghislaine Leon, president of NAHJ and a senior marketing and retail management major. “I think it will bring a higher level of consciousness when it comes to editing content and a higher level of consciousness when it comes to marketing,” she said. Xavier was featured on an episode of the HBO show “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry.” He is also the author of the novel “Christ Like” and the editor of numerous anthologies. He has released a spoken word album called “Legendary.” In 2009, he was named one of the “25 Most Influential LGBT Latinos” by My Latino Voice, a Web site devoted to Latino issues and culture. As an author and performer of spoken word and an award recipient, Xavier often interacts with publicists and other people in the media, which he will be speaking about. Xavier does not fit the typical mold of spoken word performers, Leon said, because he is an openly gay Latino. She said most spoken word performers are black males. Leon said she thinks Xavier is someone with whom a range of students can identify. “He will be someone who students can envision themselves in his shoes,” she said. The event intends to make students more conscious of how the LGBT community is portrayed in the media, said Eliza Catalino, co-public relations chair of NAHJ and a sophomore advertising major. Xavier will speak about how he has been portrayed in the media as see LGBT page 4
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eliot chang performs Wednesday night in Gifford Auditorium as part of his ‘Bad Role Model’ stand-up comedy tour. The tour includes a total of 100 shows across all 50 states. Chang is known for his fashion style and opinionated comedy routines. The event was hosted by Kappa Phi Lambda sorority. Chang will have his own half-hour special on Comedy Central airing April 23.
SU defies trend of increasing computer science enrollment By Joe Genco Staff Writer
After eight years of decline, the number of students majoring in computer science in the United States has started to increase over the past two years, according to a study released in March. But Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science doesn’t match the trend, continuing on a slight decline throughout the past five years. Reversing the national decline that started in 2000, computer science enrollment has increased 14 percent since 2007 nationally, according to a report released by the Computing Research Association. The national rise in majors could be due to an expanding job market in computer science and related fields. At SU, the number of computer science majors has only varied slightly each year, according to statistics from the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. In fall 2005 there were 200 computer science majors, and in fall 2009 there were 197, after the number increased to 224 in fall
2008. One reason college students have increased interest in computer science is the positive outlook for the job market, especially during an economic recession when jobs are disappearing, according to the report. “There are a lot of students who were looking at careers in economics or finance, but they realized that computer science is a safer path than Wall Street — they know there will be a job for them when they graduate,” said Peter Harsha, director of government affairs for the Computing Research Association. Computer and mathematical science is one of the fastest-growing occupations, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ projections for 2008-18. The field is expected to add 785,700 new jobs between 2008 and 2018, according to a report published by the bureau. The steady number of computer science majors at SU could be because incoming students are misinformed about the field, said Jae Oh, director of the department of computer science.
Oh said he has seen a lot of incoming computer science majors who mistakenly think they will one day work as programmers. Computer programmers need a simple certification to get hired, not a four-year degree, he said. “We make ideas and concepts about how to make computers faster and better, and programming is our tool to express those ideas,” Oh said. Computer science enrollment was at an all-time high at the peak of the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. It began declining when the technology industry’s bubble burst around 2001, Oh said. Small start-up companies like Amazon were striking it rich, and venture capitalists wanted to invest in the next big thing, Oh said. Eventually, the Internet technology industry grew larger than the economy could hold, he said. The newest developments in the technology industry are green technology and biotechnology, and these fields will require many computer scientists in the coming years, Oh said. Companies want to expand their use of computers
without having a negative effect on the environment, he said. This is part of a growing trend of computer scientists being hired at not just computer companies, but at all kinds of businesses, Harsha said. “There isn’t a single market that isn’t affected by IT,” Harsha said. “Businesses have become very adept at using new technologies, and everything is getting to be more wired.” Although student interest in computer science hasn’t grown at SU, some current majors said they have experienced these trends in the industry’s job market. Austin Arbor, a junior computer science major, said he has experienced the need for computer scientists while interning at JPMorgan Chase. “When I first came to college I thought I’d work for a software company like Google or Microsoft one day,” Arbor said, “but after getting an internship at a bank, I now see that there are jobs at any kind of company.” jdgenco@ syr.edu
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would rather study on cloudy days, students visiting on such days would subconsciously be more inclined to enroll at the university. The clouds induce a more somber mood, causing students to feel more like studying. The cloudy days make campuses more inviting to academically inclined students, according to the study. Syracuse University sees only 62 sunny days per year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, but the study still doesn’t convince SU psychology professor Leonard Newman. “Hopefully, people will read it carefully and think about it carefully and realize that these findings might just apply to certain students in certain circumstances, and maybe not even there,” Newman said. “We really need to see the study replicated to see if anyone else can get similar findings.” Newman said his primary criticism was the study was simply too specific. It is only taking into account students who perceive a university to be primarily a place where they are looking to study, he said. At a school like SU, which Newman did not place on the same academically rigorous level as schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cal Tech, it’s all a matter of how the student perceives the school before they even arrive on campus, he said. “So I guess the question you have to ask yourself is, when other people visit Syracuse University, how do they conceive of the place?
Do they think of it as a place like MIT, or do they think of it as a party school?” Newman said. Previous psychology studies showed that for weather to influence a decision, it must be subconscious. If the weather is brought to peoples’ attention, they tend to put it aside, Newman said. For that reason, among other reasons, Newman said the study isn’t something SU should take a lot of stock in. “Of all the pieces of advice that schools could pick up on in terms of how to treat visitors or how to conduct tours, of course there’s very little that’s less controllable than the weather,” Newman said. “Syracuse is known for harsh winter weather, so people coming to visit here might be so aware of that that incidental weather is not going to affect them in any way because that’s not something in the background. That’s something they’re already thinking about.” Emily Coleman, the vice president of enrollment management, said though the university receives a lot of questions about the weather from prospective students, the university doesn’t try to sidestep the questions or avoid the issue. The weather is not something the university can control, she said, adding that the programs for visiting prospective students are set up to show the campus at times students are inclined to be around. The inability to control the weather makes it unlikely the admissions office would do anything to act on the study’s findings, Coleman said. “I don’t think there’s a lot we would do,”
Coleman said. “I don’t think it’s something we would talk about in the literature, like, ‘Hey, it’s cloudy here,’ because I don’t think that there’s any evidence that people, even if this does influence them, know that it does. So I don’t think we would do anything differently in marketing.” In addition, the weather isn’t usually a student’s top priority when looking at a school like SU, Coleman said. The weather wasn’t a factor for Taylor Visoski, a freshman public relations major from West Palm Beach, Fla. She visited SU in the summer, but she said that when searching for boarding schools on the East Coast for high school, weather was not among the most important reasons for choosing the institution. “When I did the boarding school visits, the weather was actually kind of disgusting because I didn’t go in the summer when it was nice,” Visoski said. “The school was just so exciting, I couldn’t help but just forget about the weather and take in how cool this place was or just how I could see myself here.” Cloudy weather also didn’t make her feel like studying any more than sunny weather, she said. Paul Helling, a high school junior from Midland, Mich., said he agreed about weather not having an effect on him. “I can see why people would think that because people would be less inclined to be outside if it’s not sunny, but it doesn’t matter to me,” he said upon finishing a tour of the campus on Tuesday, an overcast day. “I don’t care what the weather is when I study.” lefulton@syr.edu
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Fashion!” a viral video highlighting the flash mob will be put on YouTube. Smith recruited several students to film the flash mob so a clip could be made about the event. Phillip Crook, a graduate student in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, said the event and the mysterious invitations were to garner people’s attentions. “The success of a flash mob depends on spontaneity,” Crook said. “We wanted to give out enough information to get people wanting to come, but not enough that they wouldn’t show up because they would already know what to expect.” jwong04@syr.edu
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an LGBT and Latino spoken word artist. He will speak about understanding people for who they are and not identifying them as only gay or lesbian, Catalino said. NAHJ and the LGBT Resource Center are hoping the event will fill the auditorium, she said. The event is unique because it focuses on an aspect of the media that is rarely discussed, she said. People talk about the portrayal of race and gender in the media, she said, but the portrayal of people in the LGBT community is sometimes overlooked. “It’s just a matter of understanding people for who they are as people,” she said, “not just because they happen to be gay or lesbian.” kronayne@syr.edu
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Commencement speaker’s ties with SU cast negative light on selection The recent announcement of this year’s commencement speaker, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, raises questions because of his qualifications because of the relationship between JPMorgan Chase and Syracuse University. As CEO of a major corporation, Dimon is not the worst choice. But the potential speakers on the class marshals’ list combined with JPMorgan Chase’s relationship with SU has students wondering if Dimon was the best choice for the students. After SU raked in Vice President Joe Biden for the Class of 2009 commencement, this year’s senior class can feel understandably cheated. JPMorgan Chase has contributed a large amount to SU. It pledged money to campus and provides students with numerous internship and job opportunities. This same relationship is also what’s shedding a negative light on Dimon’s invitation.
editorial by the daily orange editorial board It can appear that SU is choosing the easy way out by inviting Dimon to reward JPMorgan Chase for its contributions to the university. Dimon is a successful businessman, but his career caters to a very small percentage of the student body. We sympathize with students who feel they cannot relate to Dimon’s profession. Dimon can quiet his naysayers by delivering a motivational speech that encourages and inspires students. His strengths as a speaker come commencement can vanquish the controversy leading up to his speech, if he approaches the opportunity correctly.
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May 16: Commencement or corporate ceremony? Graduation is six weeks away. We were all hoping for an entertaining and inspiring speaker. Do these past choices get you excited for this year’s commencement: Joe Biden, Billy Joel, Kurt Vonnegut, Phylicia Rashad (aka Clair Huxtable), Walter Cronkite? Well, they shouldn’t. This year the administration selected Jamie Dimon, the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Maybe you already know of the well-established partnership between Syracuse University and JPMorgan Chase. Our university is becoming an appendage of these corporations. Who is to say their interests will not influence university policies or classroom activities? In fact, they already have! You may say that this alliance opens up new job opportunities and inserts Syracuse’s name
into the business world. But when does the university stop becoming a university and start becoming a corporate training program? The administration’s high-held motto “Insights Incite Change” seems somewhat meaningless as we embrace, not challenge, the status quo. Maybe you recognize Dimon’s name from an article regarding the Wall Street bailout or the multimillion dollar bonuses Wall Street executives still receive. While we know JPMorgan Chase was forced to accept bailout money and repaid it in full, the bank and its officials still represent a system that is failing the American people. Although Dimon humored us by adopting a $1 salary, he also took about $17 million in bonuses for 2009. Wall Street bonuses jumped about 17 percent, while unem-
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let ter to the editor ployment hovers around 10 percent. Homelessness increased 34 percent in New York City in 2009, reported The New York Times, though the world’s billionaires saw their wealth increase by 50 percent, according to the BBC. We write to all of you as concerned students. Concerned about the shrinking job market and the growing disparity between the extremely wealthy and the unjustifiably impoverished. We are wary of the close ties our government, and now our schools, have with corporate machines. We will inherit this world and, like every generation’s duty and right, we seek to change it as we see
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fit. We are the young intelligentsias. We are the bearers of the fruit to come and we need to decide what that fruit will be and how it will be produced. Will it sprout from humanity, compassion and love? Will we put our neighbor’s goodwill in front of our own? Or will this fruit be born from a tree that reeks of age, one that repeats mistakes over and over again? We demand of this university a real change — one that does not welcome with open arms crooks of the old age who value personal gain above a collective prosperity. We require that this administration rise to an ethical stature that does not connote a digression into comfort, only to sacrifice visionary goals. Political ambivalence, on any scale, puts to shame revolutionaries like King, Cady Stanton, and Mario Savio.
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Acquiescence in the face of adversity results in tyranny. We call upon all students, faculty and staff to resist and organize against this administration, to revoke the invitation of Jamie Dimon to speak at commencement and to select a speaker everyone will benefit from hearing. We will have a meeting on Thursday night (April 1) at 8 p.m. in Panasci Lounge, and we invite all outraged individuals who seek to create their own future.
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and Colvin Avenue. DPS referred 175 students to the Office of Judicial Affairs in the 2008-09 school year, according to statistics from the Office of Government and Community Relations. That is up from 85 referrals during the previous academic year and 62 the year before that. DPS made all the referrals off campus, but SU officials estimated the students referred were split halfway between on- and off-campus residents. DPS Captain John Sardino said he expects this year’s referral total to be right around that of last year’s. He attributed the spike in recent years to neighbors calling more about student noise and more partying in warm weather. “One busy weekend could result in 10 or 12 students being referred to Judicial Affairs,” he said. Four years ago, DPS added five officers to patrol the East neighborhood on weekends and three officers to patrol Sunday through Thursday. A DPS official estimated the additional patrols had lowered crime by 75-80 percent in the East neighborhood. Several weeks ago, Harry Lewis woke up at 2 a.m. in his Lancaster Avenue home to the sound of firecrackers. “I heard a sound, so I looked out the window,” Lewis said. “And I saw another person light a cracker.” Lewis, 83, reported the incident several days later instead of calling police that morning. He said he sometimes gives students a little leeway since many of them live in the area. “I should have called right away, but I waited until Monday and called Off-Campus Student Services,” Lewis said. “They said they would
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contact DPS, who would then go talk to the people in the house.” Lewis is the treasurer of the South East University Neighborhood Association, which advocates bringing back permanent residents to the neighborhood around SU. “We’re working like mad to keep it from turning into a student ghetto,” Lewis said. “That is our primary goal.” Most students in the East neighborhood do not interact much with neighbors since they have to deal with the pressures of school and growing up, Lewis said. “Everybody’s in their own world,” he said. “You just have so much on your mind, the last thing you want to know is who your neighbors are.” Abhishek Tummala, a graduate student, has lived three houses away from Lewis for almost two years. But he said the only neighbors he and his roommates know are the ones living above them. “Honestly, we never got the chance to talk anyways,” Tummala, 23, said about his neighbors, attributing the lack of communication to all the schoolwork that every student was doing. Tummala said he has never talked to permanent residents living around him about their feelings on parties, noise or safety issues. “We can only tell from our point of view (how they feel),” Tummala said. Students who violate local ordinances, such as noise, littering or open containers, are sometimes required to take a workshop called the Project for Community Engagement. During the workshop, the Office of Judicial Affairs teaches local laws and neighbor relations to the students, said Darya Rotblat, director of the Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services. Last spring, 105 students took the workshop, and 78 took it in fall 2009. Half the students who
went through it said they knew their neighbors, Rotblat said in an e-mail. But Rotblat said some permanent residents didn’t want to talk to students and would only speak with them briefly through a screen door. “They feel that all students are the same, and if they had a negative experience in the past, they believe it will only continue,” Rotblat said. When DPS or the Office of Government and Community Relations receive complaints from permanent residents about nearby students, staff visits the students’ homes and encourages them to let the neighbors know if they’re having a party, Rotblat said. The relationships students have with permanent residents may mean the difference between police writing tickets or neighbors being lenient, said DPS Cpl. Jimmy Thompson. “If you’re a good neighbor and maybe you turn (music) up a little too loud, the neighbors might let it slide,” Thompson said. Thompson started working with the Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services four years ago to encourage communication between students and permanent residents. He goes door to door on Euclid Avenue the first week of school and passes out fliers about safety precautions. He and SU officials also have tables on the corners of Euclid Avenue in good weather to encourage students to meet their neighbors. But only about half the students make an effort to interact with their neighbors, Thompson said. Some students raked yards and picked up garbage for permanent resident neighbors, he said. But other students didn’t seem to care about establishing relations because they were only in the neighborhood for a few years. The busy lives of students prevent Flusche, the former SU professor on Lancaster Avenue, from seeing most of his neighbors outside of
his Labor Day party. But he said students are usually respectful to his requests to quiet down. He has talked to students in the twilight hours of the morning and also as early as 8 to 9 p.m. if noise or crowd size became too great, he said. “It’s not at all uncommon for parties to get out of hand,” he said. Flusche said shouting on the streets also sometimes gets annoying, but there isn’t much he can do about it. Even with the noise, however, he said it’s nice to interact with students and have a lot of life in the neighborhood. “We all have to work to make cities work,” Flusche said. “They don’t just happen.” mcboren@syr.edu
By the numbers 124 Number of open-container and noise violation referrals DPS has issued so far in the 2009-10 year
175 Number of referrals DPS issued in 2008-09
85 Number of referrals DPS issed in 2007-08
67 Number of referrals DPS issed in 2006-07
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he air was filled with sounds of sawing and chopping Saturday as lumberjacks and jills from New York and Pennsylvania competed in the fifth annual East Coast Lumberjack Roundup. The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry hosted the event at ESF’s Lafayette Road Experiment Station near campus. ESF’s woodsmen team competed in singles, doubles and group events against teams from Pennsylvania State University, Paul Smith’s College, SUNY Cobleskill, Finger Lakes Community College and first-timers Alfred State College. The events included sawing logs, building fires and climbing poles. The ESF women’s team finished in first place, and the men’s team finished second behind Paul Smith. “Everybody out there just loves competing and all the spectators love watching it because it’s not something you see every day,” said Alex Jacobson, a sophomore environmental science major who is a member of the ESF team but did not compete this year. The spectator crowd of more than 150 people was made up of mostly ESF students and faculty, as well as parents from other competing teams. There were slight changes to the events featured this year including, most noticeably, the lack of the dendrology event, in which one person from each team has to identify local trees. Dendrology was omitted because many of the competing teams come from universities that don’t have a forestry program and would not be able to identify trees, said Trevor Diefendorf, a senior forest resources management major. “It’s kind of boring,” he said. “It’s kind of an obscure event.” Also in previous years, ESF President Cornelius Murphy has opened the roundup by leading the teams and spectators in the Pledge of Allegiance, but he was unable to attend this year’s meet, said Natalie Scheibeo, a sophomore aquatics and fisheries science major. “It wasn’t really as formal as last year’s meet,” Scheibeo said. This year, the day started with team sawing events in the morning, followed by singles events including the log roll and the pulp log throw, in which a competitor has to throw a log between two markers, Diefendorf said. Another singles event was the cookie stack, where the competitor must cut as many horizontal slabs in a standing log as possible without any of the slabs falling off the stack. The singles events were not as structured as the team and doubles events, so competitors were free to choose when they wanted compete, Diefendorf said.
courtesy of ben dunphey Students participate in the fifth annual East Coast Lumberjack Roundup at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Saturday. Participants could compete in teams, singles or doubles.
The last events of the day were the doubles, including the “cross cut to hell,” where two people cut through a horizontal log as fast as possible. The Lumberjack Roundup is scored with a points system. The quickest time gets 100 points and other competitors get a fraction of 100 points, depending on their time, said Jacobson, who was one of the timekeepers. This year’s roundup went smoother than last year’s and was accident-free, Scheibeo said. Diefendorf credited some of the day’s success to the weather, which started cold but warmed up by midmorning. “It was perfect competition weather,” he said. “You aren’t sweating when you’re competing, but you’re not cold, either.” Diefendorf said the roundup is different from other sporting competitions because there’s no animosity between the teams
and everyone tries to help each other. “You’ll cheer on whoever is doing (the event), especially someone who looks like they’re having a hard time,” he said. Scheibo said she hopes to see forestry sports become more prevalent in the world of college sports, and he said forestry teams at non-forestry institutions such as the University of Connecticut and Pennsylvania State University are a step in the right direction. ESF ended the Lumberjack Roundup with a new tradition, closing the day with an impromptu game of tug-of-war between the teams that acted as a capstone event. “It was a lot of fun,” Scheibeo said. “That was the first time we did that, and I think it will be an annual thing.” jlsiart@syr.edu
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ttending Syracuse University offers plenty of unique pranks for April Fools’ Day. With such a large campus and student population, it’s almost too easy to strike at either friend or foe. While the
These six SU-themed pranks are sure to get your knickers in a twist
list could go on forever, here are some of the best pranks you’d be hard-pressed to find at any other university. Whoopee cushion not included. dafersh@syr.edu
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The Whizz Frisbee
The Fashion Show
The Bird Library
The Lyon’s Den
The Orange Ball
Materials: 1 fish, 1 freezer and/or bucket of liquid nitrogen Description: Have an unfair professor who just won’t postpone that exam you’re not ready for? Have no fear! Simply go to the nearest fish market and find the foulest-smelling piece of seafood in the joint (whole fish preferable, fillet acceptable in some cases). Then, leave it in a freezer overnight or dip it in a bucket of liquid nitrogen until it’s frozen solid. The morning before your class, strap on some rubber gloves, walk into your classroom and shatter the frozen fish on the classroom floor. When your professor walks into the room, sees bits of shattered fish all over the floor and smells the seafood stank that comes with it, he or she will have no choice but to postpone the class. This prank also works with cats, puppies, road kill, rotten fruit, West Virginia University fans, etc.
Materials: 6 birds, 1 sharpie, bird seed Description: Need to blow off some steam at the site of those stressful all-nighters? Go to the nearest pet store and purchase half a dozen brightly colored birds. Label each of them with a name of one of the players in the SU men’s basketball team’s seven-man rotation and let ‘em loose throughout the building. By the time the staff realizes there are only six birds in the bunch, they’ll have spent so much time looking for a flying Scoop Jardine that they’ll hardly have time to clean up all the bird crap on the computer clusters. That’ll show them for charging two bucks a pop for the fax machine!
Materials: Cold weather, Frisbee, urine Description: At a chilly university like SU, it’s important for a true prankster to take advantage of the sub-arctic climate that engulfs us each winter. So, when the thermometer dips below freezing, walk outside, place an upside-down Frisbee at your feet, drop trow (privacy optional) and fill that flying disc with your excess bodily fluids. Leave it out over-night and retrieve it the next morning. You now have a frozen block of urine that you can slide under your residence adviser’s door, hurl at a random stranger or break into cubes to cool off your roommate’s vodka-cranberry-juice-and-urine cocktail.
Materials: 1 phone, 1 (or more) annoying “friend” Description: Everyone has that one annoying acquaintance who always tries to hang out on the weekend. Here’s how you show that creeper how you really feel: Start spreading a rumor about a big party next weekend at 401 Euclid Ave. Tell anyone who is friends with your creeper/stalker that it’s free admission for anyone that brings their own liquor and shows it to the guy at the door. Then, when you get that inevitable text message at 11 p.m. asking where you’re headed for the night, tell the creeper you’re at the party his friends have already been hyping up all week. He’ll be super psyched to see you, right up to the moment he walks into 401 Euclid or, as it’s known to its residents, Lyons Hall.
Materials: 1 camera, film, 1 standard dormitory dresser. Description: A true prankster knows how to incorporate everyday objects into his or her efforts to terrify and humiliate another person. For instance, did you know that every residence hall dresser has the same size drawers? Armed with that knowledge, here’s what you can do: Sneak into your sexy yet snobby neighbor’s bedroom, take all of his or her underwear drawers back to your room and place them in your dresser. Then photograph yourself, your friends, the fat, hairy kid who lives down the hall, the 67-year-old custodial worker who mops your bathroom or whoever else you desire wearing your neighbor’s underwear. Print out the pictures, place them in your empty drawers and put those drawers in your neighbor’s dresser. The next time he or she goes to get dressed, your neighbor will get a fashion show to remember.
Materials: Orange paint, 1 bolt cutter Description: Tired of playing basketball at Archbold Gymnasium, where jerks who think they’re Wes Johnson yet shoot like Ray Charles hog the basketball and complain every possession? Here’s how you get back at them: Stake out the locker room until the usual suspects are laced up and ready to disgrace the basketball court. Then, break into their locker and replace their shampoo with orange paint. By the time their blood-curdling shrieks fill all of Archbold, you’ll be long gone with their Head and Shoulders. If those meatheads ever come after you, their florescent heads would be visible from a mile away.
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CollegeHumor employees reflect on time, experience spent at SU By Talia Pollock Staff Writer
Search “March of Shame” on CollegeHumor. com and unveil a “March of the Penguins” parody written by Syracuse University alumnus Dan Gurewitch. The video narrates college girls shamefully marching home instead of penguins migrating across Antarctica. “It’s obviously a silly joke,” said Gurewitch, a senior writer at CollegeHumor and the creator behind the parody, “but if you go to SU long enough, you see many girls walking back to their own rooms in 8-degree weather and in high heels and costumes.” Gurewitch is one of two SU graduates working at the popular comedy Web site, which features humorous videos, pictures and links. He and fellow SU graduate David Young, who is in charge of advertising sales writing, write numerous scripts for the Web site. The two alumni discovered a shared passion for comedy during their time at SU, and each said they became involved with as many come-
dic groups on campus as possible. Young and Gurewitch, both television, radio and film majors in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, performed stand-up comedy together, directed the SU improvised comedy group Zamboni Revolution, wrote scripts and directed films together. Five years later, the two now get paid to sit at desks 5 feet apart and make each other laugh all day. CollegeHumor.com began about 10 years ago, when the two creators, Ricky Van Veen and Josh Abramson, were college students. The two friends went to different schools, so they built a Web site to share links to humorous pictures and online content with one another. As the site gained momentum, they started to occasionally write humorous articles while receiving submissions from other college students. The site stayed this way for roughly five years, and when Van Veen and Abramson graduated, they moved their business to an old, converted apartment. Gurewitch was hired as the front desk admin-
istrative assistant around four years ago, when CollegeHumor was beginning its transition to include videos. Gurewitch said his bosses were impressed with his dedication and talent in writing 70 articles during his first year at the job, and Gurewitch was soon given the opportunity to help develop video content. “Viral, original content wasn’t really a thing four years ago,” Gurewitch said. “We were really on the very edge of the beginning of making Internet videos that felt like short films instead of filming sketches that could also work on stage.” Gurewitch said some of the first videos he wrote were largely inspired by his own college experiences. He wrote a series of point-of-view videos: bringing a man’s brain to life while sitting in class, failing a test and walking through a dormitory bathroom. “We are really, really proud,” Gurewitch said. “Because the majority of CollegeHumor traffic used to come from pictures of boobs and kegs, but now the vast majority is from people liking the original comedy we make.”
Last summer, two SU students who interned at CollegeHumor were able to further the site’s orange influence. Alex Schmidt, a senior television, radio and film and history major, said he loved his time there. Schmidt, the current president of Zamboni Revolution, said he definitely felt a connection to Gurewitch. “I thought it was really cool that we had so many shared experiences and then got to work in the same place,” Schmidt said. Just a few years ago, Gurewitch and Young were sitting in SU desks, learning from SU professors while sharing their talent without pay. Now they work for the No. 1 comedy Web site on the Internet. “There are so many opportunities at SU,” Young said. “Comedy is about finding your own voice — what you find funny and true — and for four years Gurewitch and I were able to work out our material and find our voice as opposed to waiting until college was over.” tpollack@syr.edu Talia Pollock interned at CollegeHumor during the summer of 2009
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Questionable career choices mark loss of innocence for past childhood stars
hey say a kid becomes a man the day he gets married and starts supporting a family. It may be true. Or it might be total crap. I have no idea. As of this weekend, however, I know for a fact that every kid stops being a boy the day he sees a beloved child actress from his youth in a hardcore sex scene as a grown woman. Friday night I learned that lesson the hard way when my roommates and I hosted a group of University of Kentucky students who came to Syracuse University to watch their men’s basketball team play at the Carrier Dome. We were having a lively conversation in our common room when the topic of discussion somehow turned to classic movies from our childhoods. Of course, it wasn’t long before one of us brought up “Little Giants,” the hilarious 1994 flick about a group of rejects who challenge the local Pee Wee football team to a no-holdsbarred, high stakes game in front of the whole town. Think “The Longest Yard” on steroids. With kids. Led by Becky “Icebox” O’Shea, the line-
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f*ck it, we’ll do it live backer who couldn’t join the Pee Wee team because she’s a girl, the lovable Little Giants shock the world with their dazzling array of creative plays (like the “Annexation of Puerto Rico”) pulling off the upset in what might be the greatest scene in the history of film. Bar none. Now, the best part of a classic children’s movie like “Little Giants” is that no matter how old you get, the child actors that made the movie great stay frozen in time because your mind will always remember them that way. At least, that’s what I thought. Turns out, I remembered them that way up until the moment our houseguest tapped me on
the shoulder and said, “Dude, check out Icebox in this sex scene.” Right then and there I turned to the laptop on our coffee table and watched my childhood image of Becky O’Shea evaporate in a storm of thrusts, moans and mid-section gyrations. Shawna Waldron, the actress that played “Icebox,” also performs as a murderous vixen in the series “Poison Ivy,” coming a long way from her cute-as-a-button preteen days in “Little Giants.” As much as it pains me, I’d be lying if I said she wasn’t a super-hottie. Still, no matter how many times I tell myself that Icebox is now a grown woman, I can’t help feeling dirty watching her ride some frat boy like a jockey. Maybe it’s because deep down I’ll always remember her as a 12-year-old girl. Maybe I’m just angry she didn’t end up with the quarterback she was totally crushing on in “Little Giants.” Then again, this could be just a phase that I’ll snap out of once Miley Cyrus releases her first sex tape. Whatever it was, the image of that beautiful woman scarred me.
I guess watching a part of my childhood grow into something completely different from what I remember is a disturbing reminder of the real-world realities lurking around the corner, waiting to pull me away from my childhood cocoon. After all, if Icebox is old (and limber) enough to do heavy sex scenes in a feature production, doesn’t that mean I’m old enough to get a job, or at least do some light sex scenes for a smaller production? Age is a tricky subject, especially when it pertains to the transition from childhood to adulthood. It’s impossible to tell when a boy becomes a man, or when Icebox became a sex fiend. The best we can hope for is to face our adult lives with the maturity that comes with life experience, while maintaining the wonder that makes childhood so magical. Unless the Little Rascals start doing porn, too. Then we’re all screwed. Danny Fersh is a sophomore broadcast journalism major, and his column usually appears on Wednesdays. He wishes today’s column could be an April Fools’ Day joke, and can be reached at dafersh@syr.edu.
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top 5 Top 5 overused April Fools jokes We’ve all heard about honoring classics, but these are just ridiculous. Half the fun of April Fools’ Day is to out-joke your friends with the most original pranks possible, and sadly, these “jokes” just don’t cut it anymore. This April Fools’ Day, try something a little more unique, eh? Should one of your friends be insulted with any of these “pranks,” then sadly, the joke’s on you. Saran Wrapping the toilet: This joke can be a success if the Saran Wrap is completely see-through and the next person to use the toilet isn’t you. But let’s face it, you could only fool a blind mind with this obvious joke, and that’s just cruel. Put Vaseline on the door handle: OK, this one deserves a little credit. Unexpecting people grasping the doorknob will not be pleased when they can’t escape the slimy feeling of Vaseline on their hands. The laughs will last as long as it takes the victim to smear
So you may ask yourself while staring at the huge selection of beers on tap at Faegan’s, “What should I get?” While Faegan’s Cafe & Pub has many beers to choose from, not all of them are as good as the next. For those of you who don’t care, no need to worry, they have Blue Moon and Bud Light. But if you’re looking for a little more in your pint glass and a better taste for your buck, check out these fine selections:
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that crap all over your face. Taping the trigger on the sink hose: When your housemate goes to use the hose on the sink, he or she will be unpleasantly surprised when the water juts out at them. Again, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone oblivious enough to let this happen to them. Should this age-old prank actually succeed, then the person probably deserved it. Bonus points, however, if the hose is pointed at someone’s crotch. No one likes to pee his or her pants. But then again … Fake dog poop: — really? You’re playing Checkers with a Chess player. The “Made in China” sticker and lack of smell is sure to alert your victim to the lack of reality in the prank. Whoopee cushions: In the off chance that can actually place a cushion on someone’s seat without them actually noticing, you’ll be treated to noise that kinda-sorta-maybe resembles flatulence. Good one, Charlie Chaplin. This is by far the lamest April Fools’ Day prank of all time. To pull this means nothing less than epic failure — Compiled by Flash Steinbeiser, feature editor, ansteinb@syr.edu
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The old standby. Dogfish Head’s 60 Minute is one of the best IPA’s that you can find in most bars and grocery stores, and Faegan’s is no exception. If you desire more bite to your beer, check out the 60 Minute for a full-bodied beer with a good hop kick. You will get citrus flavors and scents, along with a prolonged bitter aftertaste. While you can’t exactly pound down a ton of these, the 60 Minute is a great beer to go with dinner or if you are stopping at one or two. The IPA is well balanced but will offend those who like lighter beers. Again, if you are looking to move out of the realm of bad beer, Dogfish Head’s 60 Minute is a great place to start. — Compiled by Will Halsey, asst. photo editor, wlhalsey@syr.edu
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‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ soaks in raunchy humor and one-liners with selfaware absurdity
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(Clark Duke), along for the journey,
out all the stops to ensure the aesthetic
much to Lou’s chagrin.
suited the times. The film flaunts ter-
Tub Time Machine” might not be a reve-
rific supporting performances from
lation. Were that the only major criticism
In keeping with that principle, “Hot
he occasionally hilarious
After a night of heavy drinking in
“Hot Tub Time Machine”
the hotel room’s hot tub their first night
1980s staples Chevy Chase (best known
of the picture, however, the filmmakers
is the latest in a line of
at the resort, the friends wake up to
for “Caddyshack” and “National Lam-
probably would not be devastated.
gross-out comedies expecting to woo
find themselves not in a disheveled Las
poon’s Vacation”), Crispin Glover (who
a wide audience without any major
Vegas penthouse, like the cast of “The
played Marty McFly’s father in “Back to
star power. Riding a marketing push
Hangover,” but in a hot tub in the year
the Future”) and William Zabka (“The
inspired by “The Hangover,” the
1986. After the friends regain their
Karate Kid”). Not to mention some
highest-grossing R-rated comedy of
bearings, they debate whether to take
inspired costume design, as the film
all time, the picture wears its drunk-
advantage of their extraordinary situ-
embodies the 1980s as any period piece.
en-loser charm on its sleeve. “Hot Tub
ation or to keep the future intact by not
Time Machine” is shameless fun and
disturbing past events.
The premise of “Hot Tub Time Machine” is so quirky that the audi-
represents a brand of comedy that
This means Adam must again break
star-driven pictures have increas-
up with his first love. Nick must gather
anticipating laughs, which the film
ingly come to lack.
the nerves to get back onstage and
delivers. While it will not be canonized
sing, and Lou has to suffer a beating at
as a seminal gross-out comedy, the film
Lou (Rob Corddry) attempts to kill
the hands of some cocky ski patrollers.
provides endlessly quotable lines that
himself, his old pals Adam (John
As for Jacob? He just has to ensure that
linger in conversation for days after.
Cusack) and Nick (Craig Robinson) are
he’s still born, as he may or may not
unceremoniously tasked with reha-
have been conceived during his uncle
comparisons made to similar comedies
bilitating him. The best medicine is
and older friends’ fateful trip to the
recently released. When compared with
naturally an excursion to the ski resort
resort 24 years back.
“The Hangover,” the characters are bland
When the reckless and irritating
where the guys had some of their best
“Hot Tub Time Machine” is a celebra-
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ence holds it to a higher standard in
If the picture has faults, they’re due to
impawards.com
Hot tub time machine Director: Steve Pink
Cast: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke Rating:
and their escapades are rather unexciting.
times together as reckless youths.
tion of an era long gone. In reviving
Though making comparisons between
Adam reluctantly brings his nerdy,
a decade best known for its colorful
films is not an entirely fair criticism, it is
basement-dwelling nephew, Jacob
excesses, director Steve Pink pulled
useful in assessing the quality of a film.
3.5/5 popcorns
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SU rolls over Black Knights, remains perfect at Drumlins By Jason Krakower Staff Writer
Drumlins Tennis Center is not the Carrier Dome. Luke Jensen knows that. But if this season is any indication, the head coach of the Syracuse tennis team may have the biggest home-court advantage on campus. The Orange battled to a syracuse 6 6-1 victory over Army on army 1 Wednesday in front of 47 at Drumlins, advancing its overall record to 16-2 and its home record to a perfect 8-0. SU has not lost a home game since Feb. 22, 2009, against Iowa State. “We just don’t lose here,” Jensen said. “This is our place, it gets loud and it’s hard to play here if you’re the opposition. Orange fans are so fired up about this team.” The win ties Syracuse for the most victories it has had under the fourth-year coach Jensen with only three regular-season matches remaining before the Big East tournament. The fans had a lot to be excited about right away against Army, as the Orange opened the day with three doubles wins to lock up the first point of the match. All three were decided by an 8-5 score, and the second-seeded pair of Alessondra Parra and Eleanor Peters earned its seventh straight doubles win. Despite the fact that the game was at noon during the school week, the Orange got a comparatively surprising large supportive crowd, and the players fed off that energy.
“It was a great amount of people that came out today,” said freshman CC Sardinha, SU’s top-seeded singles player. “The atmosphere and people cheering for us was amazing, and it’s always great when people come out.” Sardinha and Peters set the tone for the Orange during singles play. Peters, a senior transfer from Maryland, sat out the previous two matches after tweaking her surgically repaired left ankle. She started slow and dropped the first game but rallied and took complete control of the match. Putting on a dazzling display of powerful serves and crosscourt winners, Peters notched a 6-1, 6-1 victory to bring home SU’s second point of the day. “I have a little trouble starting out sometimes,” Peters said. “Just a little nerves and the fact that I hadn’t played in a couple days, and I think it just got to me. I made a couple easy mistakes, but I just concentrated on putting the ball in play. I was surprised I was able to play so well.” Sardinha also put on a dominant performance in the top-seeded singles match. Her energy captured the attention of the crowd, and her 6-0, 6-1 win over Army’s Anne Houghton was the point that guaranteed the victory for the Orange. In the middle of the second set, with the match’s outcome still in question, Sardinha let out an exuberant yell after her winner ended a crucial game. Her reaction set off the crowd and secured momentum for the rest of the match.
alex pines | staff photographer alessondra parra celebrates the SU tennis team’s win over Binghamton on March 12. As in that match, a revved-up crowd willed SU to a win Wednesday against Army. Both Sardinha and Houghton tried to play at a steady pace, but Sardinha’s resiliency won out and caused Houghton to become increasingly frustrated. After one winner went by her in the second set, Houghton threw up her hands and yelled “Really?” to the Drumlins ceiling. “I just played my normal game,” Sardinha said. “I’m a consistent player and I just want to keep my consistency up. I didn’t know exactly how she would play, but I figured it out and kept my own game plan.” Peters and Sardinha were just two of the bright spots for the Orange in the continued dominance at home. Parra won 6-0, 6-1 from the
fourth-seeded singles slot, and junior Christina Tan won her sixth-seeded match, 6-2, 6-1. Second-seeded sophomore Emily Harman bounced back after losing her second set and won her match in a 10-4 tiebreaker. The Orange’s 10th straight victory was even sweeter for Jensen and the returning members of the team because they lost to Army 5-2 last season. “It’s a big deal because you lose to someone and you set a mark,” Jensen said. “It gets personal and it gets extremely competitive. To come out after losing to them last year just shows you that this team is the real deal.” jakrakow@syr.edu
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Harman makes key adjustment in close singles win By Allison Guggenheimer Staff Writer
alex pines | staff photographer emily harman winds up to serve in the SU tennis team’s match against Binghamton on March 12. Harman used her serve-and-volley attack once again to net a singles victory on Wednesday.
Emily Harman had to get to the net. She was playing a match tiebreaker with the score tied at one at the end of the second set, and her groundstrokes simply would not win it. Not against Jessica Ahn’s consistent returns. But regardless of the speed of Ahn’s serves or the regularity of Ahn’s shots, Harman realized if she was to win, she couldn’t sit back. She needed to attack her opponent. The opportunity to dictate plays while putting away volleys was crucial. “She’s always going to be an extremely aggressive player, in all facets,” SU head coach Luke Jensen said. “She’s always looking to end the points on her own terms.” From there on out Harman attacked the net every time she had a chance. Instead of waiting at the baseline, she sprinted five strides forward. That’s where her game was. Harman’s change to that aggressive style caught her opponent off guard and secured a 6-1, 6-7 (6), 10-4 win Wednesday. In Syracuse’s 6-1 team victory over Army, Harman’s match provided just about the only excitement of the day. Aside from a loss for co-captain Simone Kalhorn, the Orange cruised to its 10th straight victory, dropping only three sets on the day. Harman, still residing far from the net, appeared to be on course for an easy victory after winning her first set. Assistant coach Shelley George said she was hitting first serves
and keeping her opponent on her heels. But the second set got away from her. The attack simply wasn’t there. “(Ahn) won the first game of the second set, which in tennis is big if you haven’t won much in the first set,” Harman said. “And I think she made a couple of lucky shots that got her confidence going and then her game started clicking a lot more than in the first set. I made some errors and didn’t execute as well as I did in the first set, which allowed her back in.” Harman came back from being down 5-2 to force a second-set tiebreaker. She started shifting into a serve-and-volley game more. But with that, her returns became tentative. She hadn’t completely made the shift yet, though, losing the second set. Then, instead of playing a third set, Harman and Ahn played a tiebreaker to 10 because Syracuse had already won enough singles matches and the doubles point to have clinched a team victory. Her volleys and serve had just one tiebreaker to stand out. “(Volleying) is what I like,” Harman said. “A very big strength in my game is to take the first serve and rock it and then just finish the point. Make the point short, attack and the way that I attack is to get to net. And my hands are good and I play to my strength.” This strength manifested itself in several points in the match tiebreaker. Ahn was unable to return two of Harman’s serves, hitting one into the net and one deep. Three points were
decided when Harman hit winning volleys past Ahn. She angled volleys so Ahn could not reach them before they flew out of bounds. On the second-to-last point, with the score 9-3, Ahn saw Harman at net and started to sneak forward herself. But that’s where Harman wanted the game to be. That’s where her game resides. Unperturbed, Harman hit a volley past Ahn. Had Ahn been at the baseline — where she spent most of the match — she could have kept the point alive. Ahn didn’t, and two points later, Harman closed out the match. All because of that switch. “I thought she played awesome,” Kalhorn said. “She was being so aggressive and coming to net and not even giving the other girl a chance really.” alguggen@syr.edu
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SU players dislike series of home games away from Dome By Andrew Tredinnick Staff Writer
Jackie DePetris grabbed her permanent marker and signed an orange hat for the child standing in the front row of the Carrier Dome after Sunday’s win over Rutgers. After playing two straight “home” games away from the Carrier Dome, it was good to be back. Following a stretch marked by struggle and defeat, No. 9 SU took its place on the field to play its third home game of the week, this time against the Scarlet Knights. But this setting was a lot more familiar than its previous two games in the week. The game was played in the Carrier Dome, not at the unfamiliar confines of Christian Brothers Academy or Coyne Field like its previous two. “It was different in the sense that it wasn’t in the Dome, but I think we had a lot of our regular fans there,” junior attack Tee Ladouceur said of the two home games away from the Dome. “Even though it wasn’t in the Dome, it was still a home game and we have to learn to adjust to different settings like that.” The first pseudo-home game was against No. 1 Northwestern at Christian Brothers Academy. The game was played before 1,583 people, the second-largest crowd in school history. But the game might as well have been a road game with a large contingent of the crowd clad in purple. The “Go Cats” cheers drowned out any pro-Syracuse chants. The second matchup found the Orange pitted against No. 8 Dartmouth. But SU had to battle the Big Green on top of the daunting AstroTurf of Coyne Field, which accelerates play and throws off the Orange’s game.
“Playing Dartmouth on AstroTurf was a little bit different. We’re not used to playing on that surface,” senior attack Halley Quillinan said. “It’s a different game. Do I think it was a seven-goal difference? Absolutely not.” Syracuse was forced from its domain as the Dome was being transformed into a host site for the NCAA Tournament. As SU was playing its game with Northwestern, the court was being laid down for the East Regional. The Orange has had plenty of success in the Dome, winning 10 straight games in that setting dating all the way back to Feb. 27 of last season. The freshmen have been able to experience the love for the site as well. Despite only playing a handful of games at the Dome, players like Michelle Tumolo talked about how they feel about playing there. “It was a rush. When you get that adrenaline pumping, you can’t stop moving — you just want to get out there and tear it up for your team,” Tumolo said after her first game. “It was awesome, it was an awesome feeling.” SU can look back on its share of “home games” and appreciate the battles that it has faced. Despite the two losses, the team gained valuable experience with variable conditions. And for Syracuse players, that also means not blaming the losses on the foreign turf. During the team’s media opportunity on Tuesday, assistant coach Regy Thorpe walked by and yelled to Ladouceur after he heard questions regarding the non-home games. “No excuses,” Thorpe said. Replied Ladouceur: “Yeah, as Regy said, no excuses at all.” adtredin@syr.edu
alex pines | staff photographer Christina dove (left) and the SU women’s lacrosse team played on three separate home turfs last week. Syracuse was happy to return to the Carrier Dome Sunday.
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when the fall rolls around. “He obviously understood the situation last year, and he just worked hard all season knowing that he would have his chance again,” center Ryan Bartholomew said. “And he’s going to make sure this time nobody can take it away from him. “You can tell in the way he prepares and the way he knows the offense.” Nassib has been looking forward to the start of spring practice ever since a 56-31, seasonending blowout loss to Connecticut on Nov. 28. With Paulus’ eligibility exhausted, the reigns to the offense are once again in Nassib’s hands. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be competition. Marrone didn’t recruit Nassib. But he did recruit second-string quarterback Charley Loeb and two of SU’s top recruits for this fall, John Kinder and Jonny Miller. And Nassib knows that. So instead of using the short offseason to relax, he instead used it to study up on the playbook, learn the nuances of a newly installed offense and increase his physical preparation, knowing he had to make the most of spring ball. This time, that hold on the position wasn’t going to be lost. “Every spring there’s going to be pressure, there’s always going to be someone competing for the position you’re competing for,” Nassib
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said. “And no matter who it is, there’s always going to be pressure. It’s always in the back of your mind. So you’ve always got to play your best because you know the other guy is going to play their best.” Like he did in the fall, Nassib still has Paulus in his ear, serving as what he refers to as a “positive reinforcement.” And even more importantly, he has Marrone tutoring him on the nuances of the newly installed offense. That is what Nassib views as the most valuable benefit of having his head coach as his offensive coordinator. And that, he believes, will make him a better quarterback when the fall rolls around. Starting middle linebacker Derrell Smith has known Nassib can play since his true freshman year. He still recalls Nassib “torching” the starting defense as the scout team quarterback. But after a year under his belt, and some successful in-game experience in tote, Smith is seeing even more this spring. “He’s a big leader now,” Smith said. “He’s honestly a true leader for us now. When we need a play, we feel like we can look to him and say, ‘Ryan, we need a touchdown,’ and he’ll do it. He’s just got that swagger to him this year.”
Linebackers leading defense Led by Smith, Syracuse returns its core group of linebackers from last season. And during the first week of spring practice, the chemistry of the unit is already showing. Following a Smith interception that was run
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One year after losing the starting position, Nassib is back atop Syracuse’s depth chart By Andrew L. John
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tepping under center with the first-team offense, Ryan Nassib remembered just how good this felt. As Syracuse opened spring practice March 22, Nassib’s name sat atop the depth chart at quarterback. But the sophomore wasn’t taking anything for granted. “This year, I have a whole year under my belt,” Nassib said. “I’ve been through a lot with the season. I’ve learned a lot and am executing a lot differently out on the field.” And once the 11-on-11 scrimmaging began on opening day, Nassib started solidifying his hold on the position that was taken from him before the start of last season. In just the first series of action, Nassib took a snap, side-stepped two rushing defenders in the backfield and unleashed a spiral downfield for a perfect 40-yard connection with wide receiver Alec Lemon. Despite drawing chest bumps and high-fives from the rest of the offense — and a raving chorus from the onlooking coaching staff — SU’s 6-foot-3 quarterback remained poised following the play. No high-fives, no clapping. Nothing. Instead of celebrating, Nassib did exactly what coaches have told him all his life and acted like he had been there before. A large part of his reaction was because, in reality, he had been. Anointed the starting quarterback in spring
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practice last spring before losing the job to oneyear transfer Greg Paulus once Paulus arrived to campus in August 2009, Nassib still took most of his reps with the first-team offense last March. But a year later, this go-around feels different. Completely different. “Last year was night and day compared to this year,” Nassib said. “I came in last spring not knowing much, never really competing in practice, didn’t know any of the game situation.” One year ago, Paulus transferred in for one season, and Nassib’s hold on the position disappeared. Once the fall rolled around, Paulus had entrenched himself as the starting quarterback. Nassib played in nine games, with varying results, and ultimately made as much as he could of his first year on the field. The difference this year, head coach Doug Marrone said, is “incredible.” In hindsight, Nassib said he now views last year’s situation as a good thing, a “learning experience.” Though he obviously would have loved starting, he said the experience allowed him to step back and see what was going on out on the field, ultimately improving his game moving forward. And it is also what has given him the resolve to go out and “earn” the job that has already been given to him. He knows all too well there are no guarantees see nassib page 18
danielle parhizkaran | staff photographer ryan nassib (12) has entered spring practice as SU’s starting quarterback for the 2010 season. Nassib played sparingly in nine games last year backing up Greg Paulus.
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